October 29, 2013

Update #117 has been added to the game.

The Fire Hawk ride, the last of the Combiner Rides, is now available. If you purchase all 5 of the Combiner parts, you will earn an achievement and be rewarded with the big, combined ride: S.M.A.C.M., the Super Maximum Assembled Cyber Mech.

Toeny and Pinkeye are now correctly marked as members only.

Click and Clack are the new Demolition Derby and Kart Racing Coin Merchants near the racetracks.

September 1 - 3, 2013

August 29, 2013

A number of SOE employees, including some of the Free Realms Development Team, Ambassadors, and Customer Service, lost their jobs in what SOE calls a difficult decision. As stated in our article, we wish everyone affected by this the best of luck in quickly finding a new position.

August 27, 2013

Update #110 went live.

An achievement for the Combiner Ride, United We Stand, has been added. This mechanic will be used to reward the final combined ride once you've purchased all 5 parts, but since it's based on buying items with SC, it is not worth any achievement points.

There has been a change to the combat power-ups. The original health, energy, shield, flame, and earth shards have been removed from most instances and replaced with new ones:

August 20, 2013

August 16, 2013

The text color of new Sasparilla items was updated to prevent their text from turning black on the rewards screen.

The overworld boss, Raven, should now always start all 3 waves of her battle.

Chugzy will now be much more visually active in the Ninjawug Outpost.

Characters should no longer bounce when the trees raise and lower during the Raven battle.

The Luau Party has returned to the Activities Calendar! The Referees are hosting this terrific shindig again.

Buy pre-paid Station Cash cards from Best Buy and redeem them from August 16th to 18th to get Double SC. See the FR News story for more details.

August 13, 2013

Update #108 has been added to the game.

The Wugachug chapter of A Hero Rises has been added. Chapter 4, A Brewing Darkness, involves Wugachug's Sasparilla Festival. There are many new quests, achievements, armor, weapons, flair and power shards, enemies and battles, and a super-rare pet pal!

Many of the UI windows accessed via the Main Menu now share the same background as the Main Menu. There is also a Main Menu button on these sub-screens.

Camo blocks that are dropped from overworld combat will now have a randomized color.

August 6, 2013

The buttons around the minimap have been moved to a Top Bar in the top, center of the screen.

Players may again hide the social UI panel with the Friends button on the Top Bar.

The chase camera for battles and the overworld have been adjusted to show more of the horizon and less of the ground.

New merchants for Archer, Brawler, and Blacksmith have been added to the world. They will use an interface similar to the farming vending machine.

Several fixes have been added for the housing permissions.

Optimizations have been added to the rename system.

July 30 - August 1, 2013

Because of the upcoming SOE Live, log in between July 30th and August 3rd to receive a SOE Live 2013 T-Shirt. While SOE Live is running, when you wear the shirt, you'll receive a coin boost and run-speed increase. See the support article for more details.

On Independence Day, SOE is having a 40% off sale on Station Cash purchased online! If you have already purchased a $15 pre-paid card, you can get in on the sale as well: redeem it on July 4th and get an extra 1000 . See our story for more details.

There are 2 new achievements:

...And So It Begins: complete the Hero Rises tutorial and earn a character name change certificate.

Natural Born Leader: reach level 15 on any job and earn a guild name change certificate.

Quite a number of bug fixes and improvements were made:

The quest box should now stay minimized after changing activities.

Mining and collection nodes no longer have names over them.

Items that don't scale based upon level are no longer designated as "New School" and their descriptions have been changed to indicate this as well.

The Fireball attack on the Awakened Wizard's Wand of Forbidden Magic should now inflict damage around the target, not the player.

NPCs, including pets and monsters, should move around Southern Wilds more intelligently.

Running into walls and tree stumps should occur much less often when using the Take Me There feature in the Southern Wilds.

The Manguana Statue and Motorsmith Pants can now be crafted by high-level, non-member Blacksmiths. However, non-members still cannot use them.

The Robot Woes quest should now work correctly, with robots re-spawning as necessary.

Slowreel's Prize Fish now spawns on top of the wood pile in the quest You Can't Steal What's Already Yours. Miles Sourpetal, the quest-giver, has been moved so he's more visible from the road.

The Perfect Pour should now complete correctly once you've done the Smelting: Tin minigame.

Pointer arrows should, once again, be present for the Biting Back minigame.

Several NBA jerseys are no longer incorrectly classified as housing items.